f = open("datafile.txt", "r")
data = [line.split('\t') for line in f]
f.close()
pressure = [float(d[1]) for d in data]
temp = [float(d[2]) for d in data]
---------------------------------------------------This will parse the file into a matrix stored in 'data'. The last two lines simply iterate through second and third columns respectively, converting each element to a float (from string as it was read in from file) and assign to the appropriate vars. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
